Achieving Sexual Purity
(Friday December 30th Session #6 Brian Boston)
I.
My testimony of growing in purity
II.
My goals for this lesson
(1) To give hope to those who are fighting for sexual purity
(2) To, by God’s sufficient word and Spirit, cut to the heart those who are not
engaged in this battle for purity and awaken them to it.
III. How will we achieve sexual purity? [Phil.3:12-21]
My goal is to use this text on progressive holiness as a template to identify the
goal for the Christian in pursuing his Savoir as the means to holiness/ sexual
purity, and not to make holiness/ sexual purity there singular goal in life but
Christ “the one thing I do”. And as we grow in the grace and knowledge of our
Lord Jesus Christ we will be growing in holiness/ sexual purity because our
greatest desire is to please Christ and not ourselves.
1. We must take aim at the prize (Jesus) v.14 [1thess.4:13-18]
2. We must focus on Him without distraction “one thing I do” v.13 cf. vv.7-11
[2cor.3:18]
3. We must be motivated by His purpose for our life “I press on to make it my
own, because he has made me his own” v.12 [1cor.6:19-20; 2cor.5:14-15]
4. We must be intense in our pursuit of Him v.12-14 “press on.. press on
toward…straining forward” [Rom.7:23-24; Gal.6:7-9]
5. We must think right as we pursue Him v.15 “let those who are mature think
this way…(humility + honesty= endurance) [vv.12,16] “not that I have
already obtained or am already perfect… only let us lay hold true to what we
have attained.”
6. We must work with others to continue on in the fight v.17 “brothers join in
imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the
example you have in us.” [Heb.10:23-25]
7. We must fight with hope v.20-21 “our citizenship is in heaven and from it we
await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be
like his glorious body…” [1cor.15:57-58; Heb. 11:24-26; Rom.7:25-8:1]
Conclusion: getting to the heart of sexual purity means pleasing Jesus with all
my choices. [2cor.10:5]